ESC Seminar with Professor Ahmed Ghoniem, Ronald C. Crane Professor and Director of the Center for Energy and Propulsion Research and of the Reacting Gas Dynamics Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Date, time and venue
Monday, 18 November 2024, 16.15
ML J 25, ETH Zentrum Campus, Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich
About the speaker
Ahmed Ghoniem is the Ronald C. Crane Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is a leading expert in computation, combustion and energy. Among his contributions is developing novel algorithms to simulate turbulent reacting flows and dense multiphase flows; new methods for passive and active control of combustion; new technologies for biofuel production; membrane systems and reactors for oxy-combustion, reforming and the production of hydrogen and other chemicals; and reactor and systems’ designs for renewable and alternative fuel production. Ghoniem supervised more than 120 masters, Ph.D. and post-doctoral students; published more than 500 articles and a book on energy conversion engineering, and multiple patents. He is a fellow of the ASME, the APS, and the Combustion Institute, Among his awards are the ASME James Harry Potter Award in Thermodynamics, the AIAA Propellant and Combustion Award, the KAUST Investigator Award, the “Committed to Caring Professor” at MIT and the Bernard Lewis Gold Medal from the combustion Institute.